India's sugar industry is in dire straits and incurring huge losses. However, the government has created a Sugar Development Fund, and there will now be an incentive to export raw sugar as a new product. Variable Temperatures in North India Could Affect Crops The wheat in North India was sown during the period of October-November 2013. In Karnal, the hub of wheat production in Haryana, the temperature varied between 17–32°C in October and between 11.9–27.2°C in November before dropping to a range of 8-22°C in December. While North India had an extended rainfall in October that proved beneficial for the wheat crop, rains in December 2013 and January 2014 were followed by a dip in temperature that could affect the crops in that region. Advi...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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